"أوراق تتعلق بتجارة الرقيق على الساحل الشرقي لأفريقيا والنظام المتبع لكبحها" [ظ‎‎٤‎٩] (٧٢/٣٨)

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Inclosure in No. 43.
Mr. Churchill to the Acting Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay.
gi r Zanzibar, January 25, 1869.
I HAVE the honour to report the arrival at Zanzibar of the iron-clad steam-ship
" Belliqueuse," flying the pendant of Rear-Admiral Penhoat, Commander-in-chief of the
French squadron in the Pacific.
Admiral Penhoat has come here from Bourbon on his return home, for the express
purpose of pressing with the whole weight of his rank on Seyd Majid with a view to
intimidate His Highness and oblige him to adopt a less friendly line of conduct towards
Jumbi Fatima the ex-Queen of Mohilla.
The Queen arrived here from Aden in a native dhow a few days after the Admiral, and
a few days after her arrival appeared the " Prequet," sent by the French Commodore of
the station to look after the Queen.
The Sultan's reception of the Admiral has been more than usually courteous ; on the
other hand. His Highnes has received the Queen of Mobilla with marked coolness, not
having yet granted her an audience, and it is reported that Seyf, the Queen s son-in-law,
who has succeeded in rendering himself objectionable to the trench Government, and who
is one of the Sultan's subjects, will be kept at Zanzibar. I am not aware of the intentions
of the Queen, but I should think that she will, in the course of time, be allowed to return
to Mohilla if she promises to remain quiet and not to interfere with the Government of
that Island by her son and M. Lambert.
It appears that Jumbi Fatima was offered in Paris 2,000 dollars a year, or 40,000
dollars to go back to Mohilla and remain quiet, but she foolishly refused this, and has
returned to Zanzibar without having obtained any satisfaction.
I have, &c.
(Signed) HY. A. CHURCHILL.
No. 44.
The Earl of Clarendon to Mr. Churchill.
(No. 3.)
Si rj Foreign Office, April 5, 1869.
1 HAVE received your despatch No. 1 of the 22nd of January last, inclosing a copy
of a despatch addressed by you to the Bombay Government relative to the steps taken by
you for carrying out the orders of the Governor-General of India for the suppression of
slave-dealing as carried on by Kutchees residing at Zanzibar.
As I am not aware of the nature of the decision which has been come to by the
Indian Government in regard to slave-dealing and the holding of slaves by the subjects of
Indian protected States, I shall be glad to be furnished with copies of any instructions on
this subject which you may have received from the Government of India.
I am, &c.
(Signed) CLARENDON.
No. 45.
Mr. Otway to Mr. Merivale.
gj r Foreign Office, April 5, 1869.
I AM directed by the Earl of Clarendon to transmit to you, to be laid before his
Grace the Duke of Argyll, the accompanying copies of a despatch and its inclosures from
Mr. Churchill, Her Majesty's Political Agent and Consul at Zanzibar,* reporting the steps
taken by him for giving effect to the orders of the Governor-General of India in regard to
the suppression of slave-dealing, as carried on by Kutchees, or by the subjects of other
protected Indian States residing at Zanzibar.
I am to state that Lord Clarendon is not aware of the precise nature of the instructions
on this subject which Mr. Churchill has received from the Government of India, but it
would appear from the tenor of Mr. Churchill's despatch and its inclosures that it is
proposed to tolerate, if not to recognize and allow, the holding of domestic slaves by
Kutchees and other protected Indian subjects.
* No. 42.